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Happy 150th Birthday to the MCZ Library! THE ERNST MAYR LIBRARY: A BRIEF HISTORY By Robert Young, Special Collections Librarian Two years after founding the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Louis Agassiz raised the funds to purchase Belgian paleontologist...

Ernst Mayr: An Informal Chronology Compiled by Robert Young 1904 Born July 5, in Kempten, Germany, to Otto and Helene Mayr. As a young boy, influenced by his father, a judge who was an amateur natural historian and paleontologist, Ernst Mayr began bird...